revolutionary government of Pennsylvania

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The revolutionary government of Pennsylvania was the provisional Patriot administration that led the colony-turned-state through the American Revolution, overseeing the break from British rule and the drafting of a new state constitution.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Patriot government
provisional government
revolutionary regime
appliesToJurisdiction Pennsylvania
surface form: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Province of Pennsylvania
Thirteen Colonies
continent America
North America
coordinateWith Continental Army commanders in the Middle Department
Continental Congress
country Pennsylvania
drafted Pennsylvania Constitution
surface form: Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776
endTime circa 1777
follows Pennsylvania colonial government
surface form: colonial government of Pennsylvania
governmentForm revolutionary provisional administration
hasEffect displacement of Loyalist political power in Pennsylvania
transformation of Pennsylvania from colony to state
hasPart Pennsylvania Committee of Safety
Pennsylvania Provincial Conference of Committees
surface form: Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention of 1776

Pennsylvania Committee of Safety
surface form: Pennsylvania Council of Safety

Pennsylvania Provincial Conference of Committees
Pennsylvania Provincial Conference of Committees
surface form: Pennsylvania Provincial Convention

Pennsylvania Supreme Executive Council
surface form: Pennsylvania Supreme Executive Council (early phase)
ideology American republicanism
Patriot cause
anti‑monarchism
languageUsed English
legislatedBy Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly
surface form: Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly (in transition period)
location Philadelphia
natureOfStatement historical political entity
opposedBy British imperial authorities
Loyalists in Pennsylvania
participantIn American Revolutionary War
surface form: American War of Independence
partOf American Revolutionary War
surface form: American Revolution
replacedBy Pennsylvania General Assembly
surface form: Pennsylvania General Assembly under the 1776 Constitution

constitutional government of Pennsylvania under the 1776 Constitution
replaces proprietary government of Pennsylvania
significantEvent break from British rule in Pennsylvania
coordination with Continental Congress
drafting of the Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776
mobilization of Patriot forces in Pennsylvania
support for the Declaration of Independence
startTime 1774
1775
territoryIncludes Delaware Valley
surface form: Delaware Valley region

Philadelphia
surface form: city of Philadelphia

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revolutionary government of New York sharesBorderWith revolutionary government of Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania State Senate precededBy revolutionary government of Pennsylvania
this entity surface form: Pennsylvania unicameral legislature under the 1776 Constitution